Evaluation

Got Outcomes? Building the Case for Your Coalition’s Contributions to Change

Jan 12, 2012 |

Virtual

Sponsored by CADCA’s National Coalition Institute, the Got Outcomes! Coalition of Excellence Awards provides coalitions an opportunity to highlight their outcomes and embark on a guided and intensive examination of their strategic plan. While the ultimate goal for an applicant is to win the award, the process is useful for coalition planning and sustainability. In this webinar, participants will learn how applicants work closely with CADCA staff to revisit and refine their logic models, identify gaps in assessment and evaluation, and improve their data presentation skills.

Evaluation 101: The Fundamentals of Coalition Evaluation

Nov 17, 2011 |

Virtual

The introductory webinar “Evaluation 101: The Fundamentals of Coalition Evaluation,” will provide coalition leaders and members with a critical framework for learning the basics of coalition evaluation and the ways in which evaluation can be used to enhance coalition effectiveness.

Community-Based Participatory Research

This publication is designed to help communities understand the relevance of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to their local work. It describes how CBPR is different from traditional research, the historical groundings of this research approach, principles of CBPR and examples/lessons learned from CBPR projects. The goal of this publication is to help coalitions understand how they can be involved in and contribute to the CBPR process, including how to select a research partner and how to set up a successful CBPR project. The goal of this publication is to help coalitions understand how they can become involved in research and why their involvement is valuable and critically important to furthering our understanding of how we can effectively reduce substance abuse at the population level.

Research Support For Comprehensive Community Interventions

This paper was developed to be responsive to the coalition field and to help coalitions understand how environmental strategies are critical elements of a comprehensive plan to reduce substance use and abuse. Environmental strategies are used to change the context (environment) in which substance use and abuse occur. Environmental strategies incorporate efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies (Babor, 2003).

Capturing the Four Core Measures: A Guide for Drug-Free Communities Grantees

This publication helps grantees of the Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) to navigate the common set of measures used to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the program. All grantees collect these same four core measures, allowing evaluators consistency in the data being tracked across diverse communities.

Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Community Anti-Drug Coalition Evaluation

This primer provides the basic tools each coalition needs to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan. In addition, it will help your coalition create and implement a local evaluation.

Sharpen Your Evaluation Skills by Registering for Nov. 17 Webinar Led by CADCA Institute

In today’s fiscal environment, coalitions must develop and implement data-driven solutions to local problems and prepare themselves to make a strong case for the community-level outcomes they achieve. This means conducting comprehensive and ongoing community assessments, utilizing logic models to guide coalition work and track progress along the way, and learning how to effectively communicate your coalition contributions to funders and other stakeholders.

Study Identifies Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Trend among College Students

A number of studies identify waterpipe tobacco smoking, most commonly known as "hookah," as an emerging trend among college students in the United States. However, the substance abuse field lacks evidence about the factors associated with the spread of waterpipe smoking in this population, such as perception of harm and commercial availability and use.

Colleges Band Together to Reduce Binge Drinking

In an effort to curb the high rates of alcohol use on college campuses, 14 national colleges and universities have launched an initiative entitled, the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking. The initiative was created by Dartmouth University to address alcohol use and the 40 percent of college students who binge drink.

Stand Up and Be Counted: CADCA Launches New and Improved Annual Survey

In 2005, CADCA initiated an Annual Survey to increase knowledge about the impact of community coalitions on the national level and help coalitions gain a better understanding of their outcomes and current trends in the field of substance abuse. Sporting a more user-friendly look and feel, CADCA is now proud to announce the launch of the new and improved 2010/2011 Annual Survey.

Become an Evaluation Expert at the CADCA Forum

A strong evaluation skill set is a critical component of evidence-based coalition work, allowing organizations to analyze data and outcomes and identify key areas of improvement in their operations. In order to help coalitions become more effective community change agents, CADCA's National Coalition Institute will present three workshops on coalition evaluation and research at CADCA's 21st annual National Leadership Forum, held at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. from Feb. 7-10.

Study Reveals More Teens Prescribed 'Abuseable' Prescriptions

The chance that a teenager or young adult will receive a prescription for a controlled medication such as OxyContin, Vicodin or Ritalin has nearly doubled in the last 15 years, according to a new report published online in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal Pediatrics.

Research Explores New Method to Address Binge Drinking

BBC News recently reported on new research by Aston University, which explored a new way to help young people control their drinking.

Service to Science Initiative Call for Nominations

Nominations are being sought from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies for its Service to Science Initiative.

Empowering Coalitions Through Research Partnerships

Evidence-based strategies strengthen communities by applying concrete research to coalition practices. However, many coalitions encounter a sharp divide between the processes and language of researchers and the implementation of substance abuse strategies. Community-level change requires a relationship based on reciprocity between these two parties. CADCA's National Coalition Institute works diligently to facilitate this type of relationship by promoting Community-Based Participatory Research, a collaborative approach to the research process.

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